From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferruh Yigit Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] Wind River Systems AVP PMD Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:05:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20170323112413.175202-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com> <20170328115409.23487-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com> <668f82f3-f816-d5b8-4d0e-3bc59b778008@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ian.jolliffe@windriver.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, keith.wiles@intel.com, tim.odriscoll@intel.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, 3chas3@gmail.com To: Vincent JARDIN , Allain Legacy Return-path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B897CD392 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:05:09 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <668f82f3-f816-d5b8-4d0e-3bc59b778008@6wind.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 3/29/2017 11:44 AM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > Le 28/03/2017 à 13:53, Allain Legacy a écrit : >> This patch series submits an initial version of the AVP PMD from Wind River >> Systems. The series includes shared header files, driver implementation, >> and changes to documentation files in support of this new driver. The AVP >> driver is a shared memory based device. It is intended to be used as a PMD >> within a virtual machine running on a Wind River virtualization platform. >> See: http://www.windriver.com/products/titanium-cloud/ >> >> It enables optimized packet throughput without requiring any packet >> processing in qemu. This allowed us to provide our customers with a >> significant performance increase for both DPDK and non-DPDK applications >> in the VM. Since our AVP implementation supports VM live-migration it >> is viewed as a better alternative to PCI passthrough or PCI SRIOV since >> neither of those support VM live-migration without manual intervention >> or significant performance penalties. >> >> Since the initial implementation of AVP devices, vhost-user has become part >> of the qemu offering with a significant performance increase over the >> original virtio implementation. However, vhost-user still does not achieve >> the level of performance that the AVP device can provide to our customers >> for DPDK based guests. >> >> A number of our customers have requested that we upstream the driver to >> dpdk.org. > > Acked-by: vincent.jardin@6wind.com Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.